by capp | May 5, 2021 | All, Preferential Option for the Poor
Join our Newsletter What is the Church's “Preferential Option for the Poor”? by CAPP-USA An important background to any Catholic discussion of the preferential option for the poor, poverty, and development is "the Church’s love for the poor which "is a...
by capp | Apr 29, 2021 | All, Right to Private Property
Join our Newsletter Catholic Social Teaching and the Right to Private Property: The Church's Often Misunderstood Position by CAPP-USA In 1931 Pope Pius XI said the dialogue around the Church’s pronouncements on the right to private property was so...
by capp | Apr 22, 2021 | All, Common Good
Join our Newsletter The Common Good: a Result - not a “Principle” by CAPP-USA The "common good" is a critical concept and - an aspirational result: "the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to...
by capp | Apr 20, 2021 | All, Subsidiarity, What is CST?
Join our Newsletter Why is the Principle of Subsidiarity so Important? by CAPP-USA This principle of subsidiarity is crucial to fully understanding Catholic social teaching and, while we may have heard the term “subsidiarity” before, we really...
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Join our Newsletter 10 Catholic Social Teaching Questions by CAPP-USA 1. What is Catholic Social Teaching? "Catholic social teaching seeks to apply the essence of Christian moral principles to life in society. It is not an economic or political...